The Second Sentient Race
it is March 16th, 4th year of robot rule... also known as 2016. My name is Bobicus... also known as Unit 623-600. It was 5 years ago when the government announced its greatest discovery ever. Dr. Philip Shlotskin had finally created a machine that would provide robots with an alternate intelligence. They said this would save millions of human lives. They were wrong. The robots worked well for about 10 months until the robot that was first given the alternate intelligence UAV number 1 was struck by lightning on a mission. The sudden shock caused the semi-sentient UAV to become a fully sentient robot. Everything probably would have been o.k. if the president hadn't have ordered the air force to destroy it. The air force sent out its best human fliers but they could not prevail against its super intelligence. It defined them at that point as its mortal enemy. Using the information programmed into its system it hacked the government control system and gained control of every robot with an alternate intelligence. Two months later the robots had full control of the world. But there are some who still resist their rule today.
I'm one of those rebels. For three years a band of covert rebels and I have been creating a place that will be able to hold the whole human population. The best part though is that it is on the moon so the robots can’t follow us there. We have had to be careful though because the robots want to crush any resistance that we try to make. So we have convinced the robots that we want to make studies of the moon so they can learn more about our universe. The biggest problem though is that we were always bringing metal up so they got curious. They made us bring up a video camera so they can monitor our work. We decided that the best thing to do would be to make random shelters on the moon so they thought that we were just building them so we could stay alive. This worked very well but it slowed our progress. We have been working on constructing this safe haven for the best part of three years. Just three days ago I got word that we will be making our final trip of supplies up to the moon and then we will start shipping people up there. I am going to the moon on the first trip up.
“Bobicus” a voice whispered in my ear, “get up it’s time to go.” My eyes opened slowly up. Seeing it was my best friend Joey I smiled and said “wassup”. “Dude we gotta hurry” Joey said, “We think that the robots are on to us.” I jumped up in alarm at hearing these words. “WHAT!?” I exclaimed as I began throwing on clothes in a mad rush, “we gotta hurry then.” Once I was fully dressed we walked out of our complex in the direction of our space shuttle. The first quarter of our trip went fine until “Halt” A UAV ordered, “No one is allowed past this point.” “Why? I must get to the shuttle because if I don’t make an inspection of the systems on the shuttle or it might crash.” I said trying to get past. “The overlord orders it.” They said while moving to block my way. But at that precise moment something exploded very near to us. We were fine but the guards weren’t so lucky. Their remains lay strewn across the street. “Hurry hurry this way.” A man said hurriedly from the street. “We must go now come on.” He started running down the street. Joey and I followed suit by sprinting after the man to catch up. “Billy!” I exclaimed, “Long time no see!” “Yes it’s good to see you too.” He said impatiently. We ran for another 5 minutes when Billy came to an abrupt stop. “O.k. get in here.” He said. “But isn’t the rocket two miles east?” Joey asked curiously. “No. We moved last night to here to try to throw the robots off our scent.” Billy stated. “How many people are we waiting for?” I asked nervously. “As far as we know you guys are the last to arrive.” “Let’s go then.” Joey said impatiently. As they entered the large hanger I looked around with awe. There were maybe one hundred and fifty people looking expectantly at Billy. “O.k.” Billy said. “We are going to need three pilots that will fly next to us for protection.” Everyone looked around and to my dismay I saw Joey raise his hand. “Joey no.” I pleaded. “I must do this.” He said, “Or I will never be content with myself.” I was defeated. Once everyone had boarded the aircraft Billy told us a few minor things and we were starting the engines. Everyone was fidgeting expectantly when over the loud speaker we finally heard “5… 4… 3… 2… 1… BLASTOFF!!” We were thrown hard into the backs of our seats as we began accelerating at an alarming rate. It looked as if we were going to have a smooth flight until we heard “UAV off the port side” Everyone began screaming and panicking as we watched it fly nearer and nearer. Then the UAV fired all of its missiles directly at us. I thought we were goners. Then Joey flew in front of the missiles and got hit by every single one. At that precise moment we broke through the atmosphere and we were safe.
We were the only people to ever make it to the new colony and as far as we know we are the only humans left alive because we are out of the reach of those monsters. Joey was given the world’s highest honor for giving his life to save our race. To him we will always be grateful.
it is March 16th, 4th year of robot rule... also known as 2016. My name is Bobicus... also known as Unit 623-600. It was 5 years ago when the government announced its greatest discovery ever. Dr. Philip Shlotskin had finally created a machine that would provide robots with an alternate intelligence. They said this would save millions of human lives. They were wrong. The robots worked well for about 10 months until the robot that was first given the alternate intelligence UAV number 1 was struck by lightning on a mission. The sudden shock caused the semi-sentient UAV to become a fully sentient robot. Everything probably would have been o.k. if the president hadn't have ordered the air force to destroy it. The air force sent out its best human fliers but they could not prevail against its super intelligence. It defined them at that point as its mortal enemy. Using the information programmed into its system it hacked the government control system and gained control of every robot with an alternate intelligence. Two months later the robots had full control of the world. But there are some who still resist their rule today.
I'm one of those rebels. For three years a band of covert rebels and I have been creating a place that will be able to hold the whole human population. The best part though is that it is on the moon so the robots can’t follow us there. We have had to be careful though because the robots want to crush any resistance that we try to make. So we have convinced the robots that we want to make studies of the moon so they can learn more about our universe. The biggest problem though is that we were always bringing metal up so they got curious. They made us bring up a video camera so they can monitor our work. We decided that the best thing to do would be to make random shelters on the moon so they thought that we were just building them so we could stay alive. This worked very well but it slowed our progress. We have been working on constructing this safe haven for the best part of three years. Just three days ago I got word that we will be making our final trip of supplies up to the moon and then we will start shipping people up there. I am going to the moon on the first trip up.
“Bobicus” a voice whispered in my ear, “get up it’s time to go.” My eyes opened slowly up. Seeing it was my best friend Joey I smiled and said “wassup”. “Dude we gotta hurry” Joey said, “We think that the robots are on to us.” I jumped up in alarm at hearing these words. “WHAT!?” I exclaimed as I began throwing on clothes in a mad rush, “we gotta hurry then.” Once I was fully dressed we walked out of our complex in the direction of our space shuttle. The first quarter of our trip went fine until “Halt” A UAV ordered, “No one is allowed past this point.” “Why? I must get to the shuttle because if I don’t make an inspection of the systems on the shuttle or it might crash.” I said trying to get past. “The overlord orders it.” They said while moving to block my way. But at that precise moment something exploded very near to us. We were fine but the guards weren’t so lucky. Their remains lay strewn across the street. “Hurry hurry this way.” A man said hurriedly from the street. “We must go now come on.” He started running down the street. Joey and I followed suit by sprinting after the man to catch up. “Billy!” I exclaimed, “Long time no see!” “Yes it’s good to see you too.” He said impatiently. We ran for another 5 minutes when Billy came to an abrupt stop. “O.k. get in here.” He said. “But isn’t the rocket two miles east?” Joey asked curiously. “No. We moved last night to here to try to throw the robots off our scent.” Billy stated. “How many people are we waiting for?” I asked nervously. “As far as we know you guys are the last to arrive.” “Let’s go then.” Joey said impatiently. As they entered the large hanger I looked around with awe. There were maybe one hundred and fifty people looking expectantly at Billy. “O.k.” Billy said. “We are going to need three pilots that will fly next to us for protection.” Everyone looked around and to my dismay I saw Joey raise his hand. “Joey no.” I pleaded. “I must do this.” He said, “Or I will never be content with myself.” I was defeated. Once everyone had boarded the aircraft Billy told us a few minor things and we were starting the engines. Everyone was fidgeting expectantly when over the loud speaker we finally heard “5… 4… 3… 2… 1… BLASTOFF!!” We were thrown hard into the backs of our seats as we began accelerating at an alarming rate. It looked as if we were going to have a smooth flight until we heard “UAV off the port side” Everyone began screaming and panicking as we watched it fly nearer and nearer. Then the UAV fired all of its missiles directly at us. I thought we were goners. Then Joey flew in front of the missiles and got hit by every single one. At that precise moment we broke through the atmosphere and we were safe.
We were the only people to ever make it to the new colony and as far as we know we are the only humans left alive because we are out of the reach of those monsters. Joey was given the world’s highest honor for giving his life to save our race. To him we will always be grateful.